The Soldier's Details
- Surname:
- Ware
- First Name:
- Frank
- Rank:
- Pte
- Regimental #:
- WX10711
- Company:
- B Coy 2/3rd MGB
- Enlisted:
- 15.01.1941
- DOB:
- 20.04.1908
- Place of Birth:
- Beverley WA
- Father's Name:
- Ware Alfred James
- Mothers's Name:
- Ware Johanna Agnes (nee Kearney)
- Religion:
- Roman Catholic
- Pre-war Occupation:
- Bogger
- Camps Thailand:
- Tarso
- POW#:
- 6732, 39109 Thailand.
- Place of Death:
- Tarso, Thailand
- Date of Death:
- 1.10.1943
- Buried:
- Kanchanaburi Cemetery Row J, Plot 1, Grave 78.
General Description
Frank was 32 years 8 months old when he enlisted 15 Jan 1941. His family lived at East Beverley.
Frank Richard WARE
Frank was one of the number of 2/3rd who disembarked at Batavia (Java) from Middle East on 18 Feb 1942, reported missing at Java on 07 Mar 1942. They were taken POWs of Japan about 8 March when the Dutch East Indian Forces capitulated to Japan.
He left Java with Dunlop Force Java Part No, 6, with CO Weary Dunlop to sail to Singapore then a rail journey into Thailand before reaching the Burma-Thai Railway to work. Please read further
Below: List of POWs who died at Tarsau Hospital Camp, he would have been evacuated from the railway to Tarsau. He left Java with a work party to work on the Burma-Thai Railway. Frank died 1 Oct 1943 of dysentery. His body would have been interned and reburied at Kanachanaburi War Cemetery after the war ended.
Below: Hospital records by Dunlop.
Frank’s parents Alfred and Johanna Ware married in SA 1893 and came to WA with several older children and settled, farmed east of Beverley. They had a large family, Frank was the youngest surviving son of 13 children.
Below: Frank’s father Alfred b. Morphett Vale, SA 1850 died in 1947 aged 96 years.
Below: Frank’s mother Joanna Agnes Ware (nee Kearney) was born in SA to Irish parents d. Sept 1955 aged 92 years.
